Research

Books

Cover image of Dr. Popes book, Dangerous Spirit of Liberty

Dangerous Spirit of Liberty

by Dr. Justin Pope (University of Missouri Press, 2025)

An image of the cover of Dr. Sheppard's 2024 book, Women in the Valley of the Kings

Women in the Valley of the Kings

by Dr. Kathleen Sheppard (St. Martin's Press, 2024)

Cover image of Dr. Sheppard's book volume 12 of the Correspondence of John Tyndall

The Correspondence of John Tyndall, volume 12

edited by Dr. Kathleen Sheppard and Dr. Anne DeWitt

Image of the cover of Dr. DeWitt's book The Missouri Home Guard

The Missouri Home Guard: Protecting the Home Front During the Great War

by Dr. Petra DeWitt (University of Missouri Press, 2022)

Cover image of Dr. Sheppard's book Tea on the Terrace

Tea on the Terrace: Hotels and Egyptologists' Social Networks, 1885-1925

by Dr. Kathleen Sheppard (Manchester University Press, 2022)

Forged in Gold: Missouri S&T's First 150 Years

by Dr. Larry Gragg (State Historical Society of Missouri, 2020)

Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943

by Dr. John McManus (Dutton Caliber, 2019). Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History.

A & R Pioneers: Architects of American Roots Music on Record

by Dr. Patrick Huber (Vanderbilt University Press, 1st ed. 2018)

A Reformation Sourcebook: Documents from an Age of Debate

by Dr. Michael Bruening (University of Toronto Press, 2017).

African Civilization in the 21st Century

edited by Dr. Tseggai Isaac and Dr. Andrew Targowski (Nova, 2015)

The Hank Williams Reader

edited by Dr. Patrick Huber, Dr. Steve Goodson, and Dr. David Anderson (Oxford University Press, 2014)

The Life of Margaret Alice Murray

by Dr. Kathleen Sheppard (Lexington Books, 2013)

Bright Light City: Las Vegas in Popular Culture

by Dr. Larry Gragg (University Press of Kansas, 2012)

John F. Kennedy: A Biography

by Dr. Michael Meagher and Dr. Larry Gragg (Greenwood, 2011)

Out of Steam: Dieselization and American Railroads 1920-1960

by Dr. Jeff Schramm (Lehigh University Press, 2010)

The Quaker Community on Barbados: Challenging the Culture of the Planter Class

by Dr. Larry Gragg (University of Missouri Press, 2009)

Linthead Stomp: The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South

by Dr. Patrick Huber (University of North Carolina Press, 2008)

Calvinism's First Battleground: Conflict and Reform in the Pays de Vaud, 1528-1559

by Dr. Michael Bruening (Springer, 2005), also in French translation as Le Premier Champs de Bataille du Calvinisme

The 1920s: American Popular Culture Through History

by Dr. Patrick Huber and Dr. Kathleen Drowne (Greenwood, 2004)

U.S. Military History For Dummies

by Dr. John McManus (Wiley, 2007)

The Americans at D-Day

by Dr. John McManus (St. Martin's Press, 2005)

The Americans at Normandy

by Dr. John McManus (St. Martin's, 2004)

Deadly Sky: The American Combat Airman in World War II

by Dr. John McManus (Random House, 2002)

Articles and Other Contributions